North Kossuth Community School District
North Kossuth Community School District is a school district based in Swea City, Iowa.[1] Located in northern Kossuth County, it serves Swea City, Bancroft, and Ledyard.[2]
As of 2015 the district has about 300 students.[3] It operates an elementary and middle school in Swea City, consisting of North Kossuth Elementary School and North Union Middle School.[4] Its high school is North Union High School in Armstrong, of the North Union Community School District.[5] As part of a grade-sharing arrangement the North Union and North Kossuth districts send each other's students to their secondary schools, and in addition North Union and North Kossuth share a superintendent, Travis Schueller, and some other administrators. The North Kossuth district is branded as "North Union Schools" even though the two districts remain legally separate.[3]
History
It was formed on July 1, 1978 by the merger of the Swea City and Ledyard school districts.[6]
In 2008 it began a grade-sharing arrangement with the Sentral Community School District. Later the Armstrong-Ringsted Community School District entered into a new grade-sharing arrangement with Sentral, and the two districts merged into North Union in 2014.[7]
In 2015 Schueller stated that area voters had emotional attachment to the school building but not the school district itself, which would make them more easily accept a future school district merger.[3]
References
- Home. North Kossuth High School. April 1, 2007. Retrieved on July 15, 2018. "North Kossuth High School 203 5th St. North"
- "North Kossuth." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 15, 2018.
- Duffy, Molly (2018-02-13). "Iowa school districts cope with when to consolidate - and when to stand alone". Cedar Rapids Gazette. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
- "North Union, Swea City Campus." North Union Community School District. Retrieved on July 15, 2018.
- "High School." North Union Community School District. Retrieved on July 15, 2018.
- "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
- "Northern Iowa voters OK school merger". Fairmont Sentinel. 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
External links
- North Kossuth School Board - at the North Union Community School District website
- North Sentral Kossuth grade-sharing at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (joint website with the North Kossuth and former Sentral schools)
- North Kossuth Community School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index)